On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:28 am, (no name) wrote:
> Pirates like those are ought to be publicized! Hehehe... DTI? Talaga? If
> you can prove it, then publish it - I am sure that I won't be alone in
> supporting you. ;-)
sana nga. kaya lang, former client. i can't expose them directly. ethical
issues. if someone else exposed them, and then the judge subpoenaed
me, sure, i'd testify. but i could not start the process.
also here is the essential filipino problem. we don't want to get
involved because getting involved means losing a previous client who
might become a future client, and in any case certainly has contacts
with many current or future clients whom they could influence. and if
i lose, they can make trouble for me and my company. i wouldn't mind
if it was just me... but many other employees would be affected.
this is similar to the situation with ISPs and telcos here. the telcos set
ridiculous pricing for their E1s because they operate their own ISPs.
they don't need the competition (i am aware of two telcos, one of which
I work with regularly now with another ISP, which basically killed a
competing ISP in another city by charging PHP 1,500 for their
phone lines when regular *business* users were only charged
PHP 600 or so).
on the other hand, if i were to complain to the NTC about it, we'd lose
our current E1s and our analog lines. sure the NTC could eventually
have them restore the lines, but I am aware of at least one case where
the telco fiddled with the analog lines of an ISP so that the ISP's
clients using that telco's lines switched to the telco's ISP instead since
the other ISP's lines were unstable. eventually, the ISP just gave up all
those analog lines and to this day they have no lines from that telco.
in three to five months my ISP would die of starvation if the telco were
to fiddle with my lines. and even if we were to sue the telco, it would
take ten years to get a final judgement, we would get nothing in
damages, and we'd have spent years wasting our time.
regarding proof and the DTI. this was three to four years ago. i'm sure
they're still illegal though. if you were DTI (essentially shielded from suit
because the BSA has to work through you and the NBI), would you
spend the $500 per copy of MS-Office for ten to twenty workstations?
anyway, this is getting OT. please redirect replies (if any) to plug-misc.
tiger
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